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Shelterforce's 10 Most Popular Articles of 2015
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It's been an amazing year full of successes and surprises (good and bad), but the incredible, creative, and committed work everyone is doing remains a hopeful sign in these challenging times.
We're taking a few days off from the Weekly, but wanted to share with you some of the most read and commented on posts of 2015. They'll be familiar to some of you and new to others, and we hope you enjoy them.
Thanks to all our writers for another great year helping us understand our work in new ways, and challenging us to think about that work and our world just a little bit differently. We're looking forward to reading more of their great writing in 2016.
For now, we wish you a happy, healthy, productive, and successful New Year!
--Miriam, Keli, Terri, and Harold
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In Defense of the 'Poor Door'
Rick Jacobus, Street Level Advisors
When the news spread about the development in New York City that had a separate "poor door," outrage was immediate and near universal. Opposing the "poor door" is a no-brainer. Or is it? More
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Shelterforce Exclusive: Interview with HUD Secretary Julián Castro
Miriam Axel-Lute and Harold Simon, Shelterforce
In September 2015, on the 50th anniversary of President Johnson's signing
of the bill that created HUD, Shelterforce got a chance to speak with Secretary Julián Castro about some of the current ways in which he's working to make
HUD a force for good in people's lives, and what steps there are
left to be taken . . . More
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The Gentrification Vaccine
Rick Jacobus, Street Level Advisors
It is a story that must sound familiar to anyone working to improve any urban neighborhood in America: decades of disinvestment and neglect replaced almost overnight by speculation and runaway market pressure. But the story of the Tenderloin is taking a turn that is entirely unlike every other American neighborhood . . . More
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Income Is How You Get Out of Poverty, Assets Are How You Stay Out
Alexandra Bastien, PolicyLink
Empowering a struggling person with the tools and information that can relieve the stress and shame difficult financial situations often cause frees up the mental energy from financial battles, and allows that person to . . . More
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The Revitalization Trap
Peter Dreier, Occidental College
Place-based initiatives won't address the kinds of injustice and poverty that community development was formed to fight . . . More
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There's Really No Argument Against Disparate Impact
Alan Jenkins, The Opportunity Agenda
The U.S. Supreme Court case on Disparate Impact--which led to a landmark decision for the community development world--attracted a lot of attention this year. Here's how Alan Jenkins explained what was at stake . . . More
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Are Millennials Different, or Just Delaying Homeownership?
Lisa Sturtevant, Center for Housing Policy
There is a mystique about Millennials which, among other less fanciful reasons, makes them an important part of the conversation about the housing market recovery and the role of housing in people's lives . . . More
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Gentrification Is More Widespread Than We Think
Josh Ishimatsu, National CAPACD
People like to say that gentrification is limited to a few hot markets. Here's why that may be wrong . . . More
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Sprawl vs. Unions
Greg LeRoy, Good Jobs First
The three very different stories of the building trades in Atlanta, Denver,
and Portland, Oregon, show just how much urban development patterns
affect workers . . . More
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Have We Been Wasting Affordable Housing Money?
Jake Blumgart, freelance reporter, researcher, and editor
We've carefully crafted a system that, by design, destroys all the affordable housing it creates. Now what? More
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The National Low Income Housing Coalition is a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated solely to achieving socially just public policy that assures people with the lowest incomes in the United States have affordable and decent homes. Founded in 1974 by Cushing N. Dolbeare, NLIHC educates, organizes and advocates to ensure decent, affordable housing for everyone. NLIHC's goals are . . . Read Full Listing
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Shelterforce magazine, the voice of community development, is seeking a sharp, organized, detail-oriented, flexible, cause-driven person to join our small editorial staff. We are a 40-year-old nonprofit that publishes both online and in print, serving practitioners working in the fields of affordable housing, community development and reinvestment, community organizing, community planning, creative placemaking, progressive urban planning, community economic development, racial and economic equity and justice, and related fields and movements . . . Read Full Listing
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Center for Health, Environment & Justice
Housing Assistance Council
USC Price School of Public Policy
Janis Bowdler
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
HOPE Credit Union
Burlington Associates
Democracy Collaborative
Planner, Louisa County, Va.
Tulane University
Habitat for Humanity
National Urban League
CFED
ACLU Maryland
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
San Francisco Community
Land Trust
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